I have been reading a lot about Dharma life lately (when I
am supposed to study for a long test next week). No regrets, these books helped
me in my journey through what I call spiritual awakening. These are the types
of books that are “heavy” to read, and sometimes, difficult to understand.
Well, anyways, here are my reflections:
Decisions, encounter, moments that changed our lives forever
is Dharma life. As explained in the book, “Instinct for Freedom”, Clements
explained that Dharma is achieved by following what is the natural urge of the
heart to be free—to seek the true calling without holding something back. Every
now and then we are made to make a decision with consequences that we cannot take
back. There would be moments that bends us and contort us to “squeeze out the
very vestige of pretense, compromise and authenticity.” Dharma life is also an
awakening. But this awakening had a price: we must fall in love.
One of our greatest challenges in life is to liberate us to fulfil
our life’s purpose. We need to find our higher love—is to accept each heart break
in divinity. It cost us hurt and pain but it what makes us selfless. That is
real love as what Mother Theresa encourages us, it must hurt and it must empty
us of Self.
Buddha’s definition of Dharma Life is very simple: it has
something to do with bliss and misery. If you are in tuned with the ultimate law
or the Dharma is bliss: you will live in harmony. If someone had gone astray
with the law is misery. When we are one with our self, it is nirvana or the
ultimate peak of bliss and of truth.
I think what makes us unhappy is when we are not in tuned
with our selves. Tuning in with the Dharma is indeed difficult. We must be
ready to every obstacle, with the outside forces, with the people around us, to
the problems that may come our way and empty ourselves with regrets and filled
our hearts with hope and love. This liberation, this awakening, this Dharma
life is still a long way to go for me. It had become a journey to attain
self-actualization. Life is indeed a journey and our karma is the consequences
of our doings. To follow what is in the heart, we must pay a price. It tortures
us, contorts us and squeezes us to become better person, a selfless, and a
happy soul. J
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